I would agree it is a waste of a learning curve. You would do better with
cold fusion but even better with Witango. Lasso will not scale the way the
other two products do and the tag language is not as intuitive, easy to
learn, or customizable.
Dan
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> From: Garth Penglase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:35:58 +1000
> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Shopping Cart i.e. I am whining
>
> CDML is fairly pale imiatation of what the full blown Lasso can do.
> Actually, it reminds we a lot of where PHP sits in the market: the later
> versions of BlueWorld's Lasso are quite powerful, but it involves a lot of
> scripting work and is no-where as easy to use, and therefore not as quick,
> as WiTango to do the same job. I've used it for some jobs a few years back
> but IMHO as a developer you'd be wasting your time if you didn't buy
> WiTango instead.
> Garth
>
>
> At 03:29 2/06/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> CDML stands for Claris Dynamic Markup Language, and was sold to Blueworld
>> by FM, when Lasso was at version 1.5. Since it was released with FM 4.0,
>> it has been improved by FM in 5.0 and 5.5. It's not bad for simple
>> things. I've used it quite abit. It has the advantage of being free when
>> you buy filemakre.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 01:57 PM, Roland Dumas wrote:
>>
>>> It's coming back to me. CDML was one of the reasons I didn't go with lasso
>>> in the first place...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/2/02 1:39 PM, "Dan Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not sur3e what it stands for but I bet Bev does. It is the markup language
>>>> used by the Web companion plug in for FMP much like WiTango is a markup
>>>> language.
>>>>
>>>> I think it is based on Technology from Lasso. I can be a pain to work with
>>>> and my hope would be the FMP Inc would adopt something more robust of allow
>>>> WiTango to bypass it down the road.
>>>>
>>>> Of course if we could get the functionality of WiTango and go through the
>>>> Web companion that might work also. It is multi-threaded so with the coming
>>>> ( we hope) ability to speak to the server engine you would lose the client
>>>> instability and single threadness that now gets in the way of a robust web
>>>> backend.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> on 6/2/02 2:28 PM, Roland Dumas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What's "CDML"?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/2/02 11:06 AM, "Dan Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Connecting to FMP through apple events was how it was done not through
>>>>>> AppleScript. This was always a very slow way to connect. ODBC or JDBC is
>>>>>> much faster.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again I think Phil was clear that AppleScript and event CDML ( God
>>>>>> Help US)
>>>>>> will be supported.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dan
>>>
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